As fortune would have it, my first car (in 1989) was a 1974 Dodge Dart Swinger, powder blue. On a busy road in Raleigh on Sunday the alternator locked up, but the belt kept spinning over the frozen post, resulting in a vast plume of sulphurous burning rubber suddenly jetting into the car through the AC vents. A spectacular demise.

(Surely could have salvaged the part at a junkyard somewhere, but I didn’t have a penny to my name so I gave the car back to my girlfriend’s uncle. All class, me.)

I have to disagree on the Taqueria and throw Taqueria Cancun into the mix…all time favorite of mine in SF…19th and Mission…La Cumbre is nice, but I swear by cancun

The list is a little left-centric? No Big Apple? ; )

Next time you are in town, give a call and I will take you to some of my favorite bars food spots in NYC…my combo is dinner at Balthazar and then whiskey at DBA in the east village or wine at The Tasting Room

Car – the 911…after all of these year, the design lines are still pretty much the same